Light in tone, the novel [Murphy] is Beckett's response to the therapeutic orthodoxy that the patient should learn to engage with the larger world on the world's terms. (J. M. Coetzee)

Light in tone, the novel [Murphy] is Beckett's response to the therapeutic orthodoxy that the patient should learn to engage with the larger world on the world's terms.

J. M. Coetzee

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